Structural and replicative diversity of large plasmids from sphingomonads that degrade polycylic aromatic compounds and xenobiotics

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2025-2037

  Basta, Tamara ^a,b   Buerger, Sibylle ^a   Stolz, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NAPHTHALENESULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC COMPOUND; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE PROBE; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MOLECULAR HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHINGOMONADACEAE; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS AROMATICIVORANS; SPHINGOMONAS CHLOROPHENOLICA; SPHINGOMONAS HERBICIDOVORANS; SPHINGOMONAS MACROGOLTABIDUS; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS; SPHINGOMONAS STYGIA; SPHINGOMONAS SUBARCTICA; SPHINGOMONAS SUBTERRANEA; SPHINGOMONAS WITTICHII; SPHINGOMONAS XENOPHAGA; SPHINGOMONAS YANOIKUYAE;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PLASMIDS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPHINGOMONAS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; XENOBIOTICS;

NOVOSPHINGOBIUM AROMATICIVORANS; NOVOSPHINGOBIUM SUBTERRANEUM; SPHINGOMONAS SP.; SPHINGOMONAS XENOPHAGA; SPHINGOPYXIS MACROGOLTABIDA;

EID: 21344441499     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27965-0     Document Type: Article

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